On 22 September, around midday, ESA’s Integral spacecraft went into emergency Safe Mode. One of the spacecraft’s three active ‘reaction wheels’ had turned off without warning and stopped spinning, causing a ripple effect that meant the satellite itself began…

A hacker has breached the Argentinian government\'s IT network and stolen ID card details for the country\'s entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles.

Sapphire Rapids with HBM to use BGA packaging.

I once killed a $125 million deal by being “too honest.” There are many ways to lose deals, lest you think last week’s story was my only painful blunder. This one hinged on a fateful encounter with Jerry Yang and involved Paul Graham (@paulg). Here’s what…

Carmen Mola, a female novelist who won a €1m Spanish literary prize last week, has been revealed as a pseudonym for three men.

Deleting an S3 bucket is harder than you think, and may even cost you money.

Researchers discover that when the mind wanders or goes blank, some parts of the brain behave as they do during sleep.

Self-hosted music streaming server 🎶 with RESTful API and Web interface. Think of it as your very own Spotify! ☁️🎧 - ironsmile/euterpe

The Australian composer has returned to performing after a 10-year break. He writes about fame, failure and his surprise comeback

While much attention has been focused on
high-level software architectural patterns,
what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This
paper examines the most frequently deployed architecture:
the BIG BALL OF…

This post is a horror story about what happens when your code/test noscripts go wrong. It's also a horror story on how not to test your code. Most testing advice hits low hanging fruit advice: Kid, you should write unit tests. Sure, grandpaWe won't be doing…

A proposal for adding a useful pipe operator to JavaScript. - tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator